Enjoy the little things- SNS June reveal

 Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here and this is my second card made for our new and most gorgeous Sparkle N' Sprinkle June reveal.

Product list:

My wild rose #898

Embossing powder Black detail SNS

Crystal  Ice glitter SNS
 Nuvo Masking fluid

Brushable glue SNS
VersaMark ink

Distress inks Ranger

Stencil Scrapmatts

Gel medium

 I made this card with a use of masking fluid from Tonic Studios and this was my very frist time to use it.
And guess what? It works perfectly!
You can see the full tutorial in my own blog HERE!

Be sure to leave a comment both here on this SNS blog post and then head over to my own blog  and leave a comment there as well for your chance to win a $20 gift card to SNS! One lucky winner will be chosen from one of the Designers' posts on the last day of each month. A comment must be left on both the SNS Blog and the Designer's post in order to qualify. The winner will be announced on the 3rd of the following month, both on the SNS Blog and on the SNS Facebook page.

Some more finished card photos for you to see :

 Step by step tutorial:
1. Stamp My wild rose with VersaMark three times over white cardstock and heat emboss with Black detail embossing powder.

2. Cover the stamped roses with Tonic Studios masking fluid as shown and let it dry.

3. Add background color using Distress/Distress Oxide inks and water while masking fluid is still over the stamped images.

4. Peel off the dry masking fluid.

 5. Paint the flowers with distress inks as shown. Add gel medium over the shite spaces using stencil.

6.Sprinkle Crystal Ice glitter over wet gel medium and let it dry.

7. Stamp the sentiment and glue it over black cardstock matting.

June By the Sea challenge with CCB

Hello my dear crafty friends and wecome to my new Canvas Corp post.

This altered notebook was made for the current BY THE SEA challenge .

Here is our monthly moodboard for you to be inspired:

And some close- ups to my project:

 You can see the full step by step tutoril in Canvas Corp blog HERE!

Wish tag with Scrapmatts

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new Scrapmatts October inspiration.

Today it's all about tags.

I made one single fancy and colorful chipboard tag and then made two more fancy tags in a totally different shabby style.

So here is the first tag and it's all about a Wish upon the stars.

 The background was made with a few of our Scrapmatts stencils using texture paste and when it was dry it was misted and painted all over so you can see the outlines of the small stars and dots, but not the whole background.
Then the large circles chipboard and some of the stars were painted with yellow and gold acrylic paint  and some more Scrapmatts pieces were painted with a mix of blues.

 The chipboard word Wish was painted with Magenta  paint and a lot of the same paint splashes were added over the piece.
 As my final textured embellishments I added a mix of seed beads inside the chipboard pieces.

Scrapmatts products used to make this tag:

Triangles 03 CB5158
Nested stars 07CB5021
Assorted words 29 CB6116
Circles 02cb 5152

Anything goes week with TOPFLIGHT STAMPS: Find the Magic

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Irit is here again and this is my free post made for Topflight stamps shop.
As you know this is this week when the designers can pick their own style of stamps and to make the project that speaks for them in the best artistic way.
 So for me it was my very first time  of working with Lavinia stamps and making this magical project in my own creative Mixed Media way.
 I made this shadow box over the $sore white plastic shadow frame.
Every single inch was covered with mediums,paints,  texture paste over stencils and chipboards were added for the more texture and interest.

The inside of the box was made with stamped image using Lavinia Guinevere Mermaid stamp.
I stamped the image over white cardstock and heat embossed it with black embossing powder.
Then I added more texture with a stencil that was heat embossed with sparkle powder.
The inside chipboards were added inside.

The sentiment was stamped with Lavinia Those who don't believe in magic sentiment stamps, die cut and added on the box corner. The sentiment was arranged on a piece of a real fishing net.

Here are the stamps I used to make this altered shadow box :
Guinevere Mermaid by Lavinia

Those who don't believe in magic by Lavinia

I really hope that you liked my Mixed Media stamped project and loved Lavinia stamps that you can buy from Topflight stamps shop.
 If you want to see more of my work you are kindly invited to my blog!

Anything goes weeks with Topflight stamps: Remember when art page

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my weekly Topflight Stamps shop post.
Once in a couple of weeks the designers make craft projects in their own free style using any stamps from the Topflight shop that fit their personality and preference.
So for me it's usually some Mixed Media project and this week it's a Steampunk art page made with three different stamp sets.
I called it Remember When as it's vintage, dark and looks like something from the past.

First I made the background with Studio Light Basic Background stamp using white pigmented ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Over all upper layers it's pretty hard to see this part of stamping, but after adding paints and mists it acted as resist and you still can see a lot of stamped background on the left of this piece.

The second part of stamping was stamping over vellum of Carabelle studio Steampunk: Machine a remonter le temps- Steampunk time machine stamp using black embossing powder and you can see the part of this stamping inside the Steampunk chipboard frame.

The last stamp set used to make this art page was Carabelle Studio Papillion Steampunk or Steampunk  butterfly stamp and its was stamped over white cardstock and heat embossed with black powder.
I added some metal cogs over this fantastic butterfly image and hand cut it to be my main image.

Everything else on this art page are paints, mediums, chipboards, mists and... Whatever we use to make the real Mixed Media project after we used our beloved stamps.

Stamps used to make this page:
Steampunk time machine

Steampunk Butterfly

Studio Light Background stamp 180

Thanks for reading my weekly post.

If you would like to see more of my work you are mostly welcome to my own blog.
 See you all next weeks with a totally different stamping inspiration!

Smile tags with Inspired by Stamping

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Inspired by Stamping  new blog post.
Today I am going to share two shabby stamped tags that were made with Inspired by Stamping most gorgeous stamps , some chipboards , some Mixed Media techniques and a lot of color.

As you can see I used the die and the stamps from the latest IBS release.

And now a short  tutorial for these tags.
I didn't do a full photo step by step tutorial, but for  you can sure make the similar project with my no photo tutorial.
1. Use pre- made tags as I did or make yours own tags. Cover them with white gesso from any company you  own and let it dry.
2. Use 4 different stencils with heavy gel medium and add texture over the tags. Try to make it more over the edges as the middle part wouldn't be seen  on the finished tag.
3. Mist and paint the texture with a mix of Art Anthology sprays and paints. You sure can use any other company that you have. Try to stay in 2-3 colors only scheme.
4. Paint the chipboards (I used Scrapmatts, but again... You know. Use whatever you have) with the same paints as you did for the background and add a bit of gold over the dry painted chipboards.
Glue the chipboards over the tag.
5. Stamp the sentiment with black pigmented ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. (I used Memento Luxe and Wow! Embossing Powders for this step.). Cut the sentiment and glue it over the tag as shown. Add a bit of light color over the sentiment strip using the same mists from the previous step.
6. Die cut the sentiment from  white thick cardstock - this will be the highlights base. Then die cut it again 3 more times from thick black cardstock and glue the three black layers over the white one.
Paint over the die cut with gold paint for highlights.
Glue the sentiment as shown.
7. Make flowers cluster and glue it over the tags. Add a bit of paints/white gesso over the flowers for the shabby look.

I hope that you liked my tags and my small tutorial.
Here are the products used from Inspired by Stamping site:

Smile stamp set



Smile die

Project life spreads with Scrapmatts

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Today I decided to share something that is totally different for me: Pocket scrapbooking double page spread.

I am not a big fan of Project Life kind of scrapbooking as this is totally flat kind of crafting.

But as  always try to make something different as much as I can I decided to make double page with 8*8'' pockets and I really love the result and the easy life of such kind of crafting.

So here are both pages made with new Natures spirit Scrapberry's collection.

The only thing that was added to those pages other than paper and some metal pieces were Scrapmatts chipboards as I had to add some interest to those so flat pockets and those chippies are just the perfect add- on to flat pages.

Here is the first side of the double pager:

 And this is the second side of it and I am sorry for the pretty bad photos , but it's totally impossible the get great photos inside the plastic pockets.

 And now for some close- ups to the parts of the layouts.
As you can see I added a lot of Scrapberry's charms to the project as they are gorgeous and still flat pieces.

 And here is my recycling trick: use the collection name as a part of your project.
Nature spirit is just the collection name I cut and used over the photo title.

Metal flairs are also very good embellishments for flat pocket pages.

Some resin pieces can be added to the pages if those are flat piece.

Scrapmatts products used :
Scrap words 22 CB1236
Grass 02 CB5100
Assorted words 02 CB1136
Nautical Designs 04 CB1221
String circles 07 CB4071
Ornate frames 22 CB1220

Fly away tag

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my new post!
This is a tag made with Scrapmatts stencils and chipboards and Papericious paper collection.
It's a kind of encouragement tag and I made the double sentiment saying : Go and find yourself and then fly away".

Both sentiment parts are arranged over the Scrapmatts chipboard pieces made with cardstock and stickers.
Chipboards were painted with Prima Spark and Metallic paints.
I used two stencils for the textured background, but only the lower one is still seen.

 I enter this to some web challenges:
Simon Says Monday challenge- On the edges
City crafter- Something that begins with S- Stencils, sayings, summer
Altered embellishments for Mixed Media Monthly- all chipboards , die cuts and even flowers are altered with paints and mediums

Captured Blessed Moments layout

Hello my dear crafty friends!
Today I want to share a layout made with Scrapmatts chipboards and Kaisercrafts paper collections.

 I scrapped my adorable grand kids again (as always) and made it with Kaisercraft July challenge inspiration.
The 12*12'' cardstock is from Provincial collection; the die cuts are from Treasured Moments and from Generations.
 The only add- ons are Scrapmatts chipboards and s bit of black paint over the chipboards and around the page.

 Here are some close- ups to the different  spots of this page:

I also added some stencilled texture over the " white spaces" of this page- hardly seen as it's pearled white paste on almost white cardstock.

I enter this piece to Kaisercraft blog challenge for July